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Most Rev. Dr. Robert M. Bowman Biographical Information
Robert M. Bowman holds a PhD
from Caltech in in Aeronautics and Nuclear Engineering and is a retired
USAF Lieutenant Colonel, Vietnam veteran, and former Director of Advanced Space
Programs Development for the US Air Force in the Ford and Carter
administrations. Following his retirement from the military, Bowman founded the
Institute for Space and Security Studies and became active in the peace and
justice movements. He also served on the Episcopal Peace Mission in
1983 and was an advisor to a US delegation of church leaders at an international
conference hosted by the Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow in 1984.
Archbishop Bowman has preached at the National Cathedral and at churches of many
faiths, including Roman Catholic, Protestant, Anglican, and Orthodox Christian
Churches, Jewish synagogues, and a Muslim mosque, and has been keynote speaker
for religious and clergy conferences nationwide and a speaker at theological
seminaries and the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. He was consecrated to
the episcopacy in 1996 and is the recipient of
the Eisenhower Medal, the George F. Kennan Peace Prize, the President's Medal of
Veterans for Peace, the Republic Aviation Airpower Award, The Society of
American Military Engineers' Gold Medal (twice), the Air Medal with five oak
leaf clusters, and numerous other awards. Archbishop Bowman retired from
the active life of the church in 2006 to pursue long-held interests in the areas
of social justice and peace.
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